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The author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf presents a lyrical exploration of one black woman's psyche by her friends, lovers, and herself, set against racially divided Mississippi and Queens, New York.

The ambitions, loves and complexes of a rich black girl. On a psychiatrist's couch she realizes her mother did not die, but left her family for a white man and rather than acknowledge the fact, the father pronounced her dead. By the author of Betsey Brown.… (more)